单选题
单选题 What does the speaker think about Peter's opinion of the problem?
  • a. He agrees with Peter, but only partially.
  • b. He generally does not agree with Peter.
  • c. He has no idea as to whether Peter's is right or not.
  • d. He thinks Peter is absolutely right.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] Peter, you get a point of the problem but I have to say I am inclined to think otherwise.
单选题 Which of the following statements is true?
  • a. The voters do not like Bill Brown.
  • b. The voters always disagree with Bill Brown.
  • c. Bill Brown often makes decisions according to his own interests.
  • d. Bill Brown is not influenced by the lobbyist when making decisions.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] The voters don't always agree with Senator Bill Brown, but they really like the way he stands on his own feet and makes his own decisions, regardless of pressures from all the lobbyists.
单选题 What will the General Manager probably do?
  • a. He will ask more people to analyze the root cause of the company's bad performance.
  • b. He will try to find out who should be responsible for the company's bad performance.
  • c. He will recruit more people in order to increase the company's performance.
  • d. He will sack those people that are responsible for the Company's bad performance.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] The General Manager wants to have long discussions about the recent decline of the company's performance but has not yet got enough people interested in working on that.
单选题 Which of the following statements is true about Stephen?
  • a. He watched a soccer match last night and did not go to bed until very late.
  • b. He went to a club to watch a soccer match last night.
  • c. He could not fall asleep until very late last night because of the noise made by people watching a soccer match.
  • d. He has been so immersed in the exciting soccer match last night that he is now not in the mood for work.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] Stephen stayed up last night watching a soccer live broadcast. Now he can hardly keep his eyes open.
单选题 What did the newspaper do?
  • a. It reported the hero's love affair according to the wishes of his family.
  • b. It did not report any thing about the hero according to the wishes of his family.
  • c. It reported the hero's love affair despite the opposition of his family.
  • d. It did net report the hero's love story out of the consideration of the feelings of his family.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] Out of respect for the wishes of the family of the hero, who sacrificed his life last week to save a school child fallen into a river, his love affair was not reported in the newspapers. [解题思路] 本题型主要考查的是对—些关键词、惯用法、习语等的理解以及对长句结构的把握。 [典型试题解析] 如第11题，如果听懂了“impervious”(对批评等无动于衷或不愿意接受的)和“uncomfortable”(不合意的、不利的)两个关键词的意思，介词结构“like his administration's failure in the anti-terrorist war”虽然很长，但只是“uncomfortable facts”的修饰语，就不难找到正确的答案。选项a是同义置换(“unwilling to accept”与“impervious to”同义，“unfavorable”与“uncomfortable”同义，并省略了“like”引导的修饰语)，其他三个选项都是针对上述三个关键信息点而给出的干扰项。 第13题主要考查的是对“more ... than... ”的理解，这里的意思是“(口译人员在工作的时候)与其说是人，还不如说是机器”，而不是一般的比较级结构。说—个人像机器，可以理解为一个人很笨，或不知变通等，但原文的第一部分已提示口译人员是高智商的 (intelligent)专业人员。由此就不难推断出只有选项d是正确的。 再如第17题，原文的句子结构很长，看起来很复杂，但其实是一个由“but”连接的并列结构。同时对习语“stands on one's own feet”(独立自主的、不受他人左右的)的理解也很关键。选项d是正确答案，是对第二个并列成分的同义置换。选项d是针对习语“stand on one's own feet”给出的干扰项，第一、二两个选项都是针对第一个并列成分给出的干扰项。